My wife makes documentaries. Back when we were first starting amplifier, Laura was our first real client. She and I were “just friends” but I’d worked extensively on the DVD for her film GREEN.

Anyway, in June 2001, she won a Student Academy Award for GREEN and invited me to attend the ceremony with her. Celebrities actually present the awards, that year Kathy Bates and Randy Quaid actually presented. And when most every other student winner was knock-kneed and breathlessly “thanking the Academy”… my baby decided in true Academy Award fashion to throw down a political speech. I just recently found a Quicktime movie of the event on my hard drive… Could… not… resist… sharing.